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Virtuoso

Sep 29, 2018

Solved

Permission denied when trying to create folders and files on a USB drive using ReadyShare / Samba.

I upgraded my router from a R7000 to a R7800. I used an external USB drive with the R7000 formatted with ext4. Everything worked. The drive is detected and mounted on the R7800 and I can browse and r...

Firmware

Hardware

cdysthe
Sep 30, 2018
I figured this one out. I had to hook the drive up to my Linux computer and set permissions for the drive to 777. For some reason the permissions were now 755 for top level while the old folders still had 777. After that was done it all worked again. I have never had problems with USB storage on the R7000 and now it seems to work on the R7800 also. I'm using the ext4 file system.

The Samba server is one of the components that is improved on Voxel's firmware and I see better transfer speeds than I ever saw on the R7000. Thanks guys!

myersw

Master

Sep 30, 2018

Like I have said before. IMHO the only way to have reliable network file support is with a dedicated NAS. Always have been and I suspect will continue to have issues with USB file support on a router. Routers are meant to route and support networks NOT all the other garbage such as USB file support that doesn't work reliably if at all. I learned the years ago and things do not seem to have improved.

cdysthe

Virtuoso

Sep 30, 2018

I figured this one out. I had to hook the drive up to my Linux computer and set permissions for the drive to 777. For some reason the permissions were now 755 for top level while the old folders still had 777. After that was done it all worked again. I have never had problems with USB storage on the R7000 and now it seems to work on the R7800 also. I'm using the ext4 file system.

The Samba server is one of the components that is improved on Voxel's firmware and I see better transfer speeds than I ever saw on the R7000. Thanks guys!